Dos Reis Mario
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Biol Lett. 2015 Apr;11(4):20141031. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.1031.
First principles of population genetics are used to obtain formulae relating the non-synonymous to synonymous substitution rate ratio to the selection coefficients acting at codon sites in protein-coding genes. Two theoretical cases are discussed and two examples from real data (a chloroplast gene and a virus polymerase) are given. The formulae give much insight into the dynamics of non-synonymous substitutions and may inform the development of methods to detect adaptive evolution.
群体遗传学的基本原理被用于推导公式,这些公式将非同义替换率与同义替换率的比值,与作用于蛋白质编码基因密码子位点的选择系数联系起来。文中讨论了两种理论情况,并给出了两个来自实际数据的例子(一个叶绿体基因和一个病毒聚合酶)。这些公式为非同义替换的动态变化提供了深入见解,并可能为检测适应性进化的方法的发展提供参考。